If Only They'd Told Me Podcast

54: Pregnancy and Parenting with Eleanor Black


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How many parenting books do you find so good they're hard to put down once you start reading them? This was the experience Jacqui had when she read Eleanor Black's book "Confessions of a Coffee Group Dropout".Eleanor gives a refreshingly honest perspective of pregnancy and parenting and the expectations often felt by mothers in our modern society. She openly discusses how hard we can be on each other as parents and raises some great points about perspective. How important really is it to puree broccoli?In this chat, Jacqui and Eleanor briefly touch on parenting later in life, never getting anything finished, and balancing the pressures of family, home life and work. 

Eleanor describes her top 8 IOTTM pregnancy myths:

  1. You can eat as much as you want. 
  2. You will adore your baby bump
  3. Books about pregnancy are helpful and you should read as many as you can
  4. You can be fashionable
  5. You'll get special treatment
  6. Pregnant women have a lot in common
  7. You'll be rewarded with diamonds
  8. You will bounce back
  9. Pick up a copy of Eleanor's book to read more about the realities of these myths. Also in this episode, we mention our latest giveaways and upcoming reviews of:

    http://www.myfoodbag.co.nz/

    http://www.made4baby.co.nz/ 

    http://felt.co.nz/shop/hatchlings

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    If Only They'd Told Me PodcastBy Natalie Cutler-Welsh & Jacqui Lockington